Word: rodion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro's henchman, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, applauded vigorously when Brezhnev warned: "Hands off Cuba." As to restoring unity within the bloc, Brezhnev said: "There is every objective condition for cooperation between Socialist countries to grow stronger." And at the Red Square anniversary parade, Brezhnev wound up old Rodion Malinovsky, his Defense Minister, for a rocket-rattling speech aimed as much at Chou's ears as at the West's. As new thermonuclear behemoths rumbled by -among them a submarine missile which was meant to rival...
...uncanny, paramnesic feeling that all of this had happened before. And of course it had. Half a million Muscovites filled Red Square with song and holiday color, as usual. Through the balmy spring weather rumbled the same long lines of tanks and rocket launchers, as usual. Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky delivered his usual threats of rocket-borne retaliation against any imperialist aggressor. From high on the facade of the Moscow Hotel, the usual giant portrait of Nikita Khrushchev eyeballed the crowd, and-as usual-the man himself, surrounded by the same Presidium, waved his Homburg in the middle...
...remaining at home in Spaso House to watch on television; he was boycotting the event to make sure he would not have to listen to an anti-American diatribe-and in Castro's presence, to boot. As things turned out, Kohler had nothing to fear. Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky's "order-of-the-day" speech contained all the familiar taunts and accusations against "imperialists," but it was nothing to get terribly excited about. And Fidel himself had nothing...
...peace and sanity" in Moscow's missile misadventure in the Caribbean. Regarding Berlin, Kosygin omitted the usual Communist demand that Western troops quit the city and did not refer, even vaguely, to a deadline for a separate Soviet peace treaty with East Germany. Next day, Defense Chief Rodion Malinovsky reduced his professional rocket-rattling to below last year's noise level, reviewed an eight-minute march-past of military hardware that included only one new item: a 50-ft.-long, probably solid-fuel missile that was billed by the Russians as capable of being fired from a submerged...
...Leninist" leadership of Comrade Khrushchev, and pointedly recalling Stalin's errors. By thus using the broken old soldier, Khrushchev caused speculation that he might want a military man's prestige to bolster his own position against army critics, possibly rallied around tough Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...